Hypertext Webster Gateway: "elaboration"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Elaboration \E*lab`o*ra"tion\, n. [L. elaboratio: cf. F.
['e]laboration.]
1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor;
improvement by successive operations; refinement.
2. (Physiol.) The natural process of formation or
assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals
and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into
something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food
into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
elaboration
n 1: addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying
detail: "a few remarks added in amplification and
defense"; "an elaboration of the idea followed" [syn: {amplification}]
2: the result of improving something; "he described a
refinement of this technique" [syn: {refinement}]
3: an interpretation that provides additional information [syn:
{expansion}, {enlargement}]
4: marked by elaborately complex detail [syn: {elaborateness},
{intricacy}, {involution}]
5: developing in intricate and painstaking detail [syn: {working
out}]
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